The murderer of Salman Taseer has been awarded death penalty. It was a proper decision. No body can take law into his own hand. I do not know others in the meeting held in
Salman Taseer wanted amendment of Blasphemy law. This was nothing wrong. Pakistani blasphemy law is too extreme. It has provided for only mandatory death penalty which is not established by the Quran and Sunnah.Any one can see the monumental work of Dr Hashim Kamali on this—the Freedom of Expression in Islam( chapter on Blasphemy)
Jamaat has many good points but in this respect they have taken an emotional and untenable position. This does not reflect wise Islamic approach.
Shah Abdul Hannan
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A declaration unanimously adopted at the moot chaired by the JUP chief Sahibzada Abul Khair Muhammad Zubair demanded immediate dismissal of the
The conference also announced immediate revival of the Steering Committee of the Tehrik e Namoos e Risalat for deciding the future line of action.
The Jamaat e Islami chief, Syed Munawar Hasan, has said the secular forces in the country have been defeated and Salman Taseer’s killer Mumtaz Qadri was a hero for 90 per cent of the Pakistanis despite unholy efforts from certain quarters to make the Blasphemy Law controversial.
He said that the judge who announced death sentence for Mumtaz Qadri had violated not only the Shariah law but also the country’s constitution. The constitution clearly spelt out the Quran and the Sunnah as the supreme law of the land under which blasphemy of the Holy Prophet (pbuh) was punishable by death.
The JI chief said that a complete unity of the Islam loving forces was inevitable to preserve the Islamic character of the country and to foil the unholy colonial agenda .
He said that Mumtaz Qadri was a hero not only for the Pakistani nation but also for the entire Ummah as he put to death the man who expressed his designs to undo the Blasphemy Law taking undue advantage of his high office as Governor, he said. The court order showed that the law of the land provided protection to a blasphemer and not to the lovers of the Holy Prophet, he added.
Syed Munawar Hasan said that the secular elements in the government and the media desired to undo the Islamic values and norms of the country in order to convert it into a free society.
Sahibzada Abul Khair Muhammad Zubair, in his presidential address, said that the rulers had pronounced death sentence to the assassin of a blasphemer in clear violation of the injunctions of the Holy Quran and the Sunnah.
He pointed out the CIA agent Raymond Davis who killed three innocent citizens had been released and sent home with protocol but the killer of a blasphemer had been sentenced to death.
Jamaat Al-Dawa chief, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, JUI(F) Secretary General Senator Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Hiadri, JI’s Liaqat Baloch, Jamiat e Ahle Hadith’s Rana Shafiq Pasroori, Al Dawa’s Maulana Amir Hamza, Tehrik e Islami’s Hafiz Kazim Raza,
Tanzeem e Islami’s Hafiz Aakif Saeed, Allama Ahmed Ali Kasuri, JUI’s Maulana Amjad Khan, Jamiat e Ulema, e
Speaking on the occasion, JI Secretary general, Liaqat Baloch, said that Salman Taseer was representing the secular forces and had been striving for an amendment in the Blasphemy law. He said the trial court verdict was against the sentiments of the people of the country.
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